Over the Christmas break, the unthinkable happened in my little Sai Kung village: a fire broke out in a neighbour’s kitchen and, by the time fire engines arrived in force, …
More than 40 firefighters are on the scene of a huge blaze in Esperance as a local high school and TAFE were evacuated on Tuesday afternoon. The huge blaze — …
A Queensland man’s $804 fine for driving through floodwaters is being used as a warning to other road users not to do likewise during possible “widespread flooding” from an expected …
An Embraer E175LR passengers aircraft of American Eagles airlines (C) taxxing before take-off to Pittsburg is seen at La Guardia Airport on January 9, 2024. Charly Triballeau | Afp | …
Cars stranded in a flash flood caused by a monsoonal thunderstorm on Sept. 1, 2023, in Thermal, California. David Mcnew | Getty Images News | Getty Images Destructive thunderstorms in …
Typhoon Doksuri, which triggered extreme flooding across China last summer, was one of the costliest natural disasters worldwide in 2023, leaving a multibillion-dollar shortfall in insurance coverage, according to experts. …
More funding is on the way for Queenslanders reeling from wild weather, including millions of lightning strikes. The prime minister flew into the Gold Coast on Tuesday to announce another …
The death toll from Japan’s New Year’s Day earthquake topped 100 on Saturday with more than 200 people still missing, the country’s deadliest quake in nearly eight years. The magnitude …
These disasters raised questions about the effectiveness of China’s climate-resilience strategy for extreme rainfall, the “sponge city” initiative launched nationwide in 2015. Experts say that the basic idea – making …
A girl sits on a cot as she crosses a flooded street in Pakistan on October 4, 2022. A record 32.6 million internal displacements were associated with disasters in 2022 …